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Marzi (2011)

by Marzena Sowa(Favorite Author)

3.81 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

140122959X (ISBN13: 9781401229597)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Vertigo

review 1: I really liked the Graphic novel about a girl called Marzi growing up in Poland under the Communist regime. It told you of her parents finishing work and then going to the shop to queue for things that we in the west took for granted.Although they all had nothing the community was strong and everybody stuck together and went to church.When the relatives who had farms wanted strawberries or potatoes picked the whole family went and helped out
review 2: This is a memoir about a young girl living in Communist Poland in the 1980s. I would give this book 5 stars for authenticity. The author captured her childhood experiences in vignettes of 2-4 pages, each one a little comic strip of daily life. I read the book in "bits and bites" over a month. Marzi (the character)... more was a three-dimensional person. I found myself irritated with her at times, just like I would be with a real child! I found the book had too much content about the minutiae of everyday life. If it had been serialized in a weekly newspaper, it would have been just right. It's a good thing I'm not an editor. I would have cut the book by half and put the rest online as a web comic! Later I found out its original publication had been in 5 volumes. I learned a tremendous amount about her time and place. Marzi's trying to understand politics by listening to grown-ups reminded me of when I was a child trying to understand the FLQ and Watergate! less

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